Person
Tim Gallaudet
Also known as Timothy Gallaudet, Gallaudet, Admiral Gallaudet
- Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.); Oceanographer of the Navy; Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
- Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and acting NOAA Administrator
- PhD oceanographer
Tim Gallaudet is a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and PhD oceanographer. He served as Oceanographer of the Navy and commanded the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, then was Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and acting Administrator of NOAA (2017–2021). He says he never signed a non-disclosure agreement on UAP, which leaves him free to speak as a private citizen.
His own involvement dates to January 2015, during the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group's pre-deployment exercise off the East Coast. He received an "urgent safety of flight" email from Fleet Forces Command reporting multiple near mid-air collisions, with the GoFast video attached. The next day it had vanished from every recipient's inbox and was never discussed again. He concluded the subject was held in a compartmented intelligence program. Jay Stratton, who collected the video and email, later told him it had been treated as spillage. Ryan Graves's squadron flew in that exercise, and Gallaudet became an adviser to Graves's Americans for Safe Aerospace.
He testified under oath on November 13, 2024, alongside Luis Elizondo, Michael Shellenberger and Michael Gold. He said there is "strong evidence" of non-human higher intelligence, described satellite imagery withheld from Congress and an object entering the sea in front of USS Omaha, and accused AARO of an influence operation. He accepts AARO's finding that GoFast was not fast but disputes its broader conclusions, and rejects Sean Kirkpatrick's DARPA explanation for the Tic Tac. He has since pressed for mainstream scientific study of UAP, especially in the oceans, sits on the UAP Science Advisory Council, and encouraged Navy witnesses such as Alexandro Wiggins to come forward.
Sources: November 13, 2024 hearing (transcript) · May 1, 2025 congressional briefing · American Alchemy interview · Disclosure Forum 2026 · Graves written testimony (2023) · Wikipedia
Facts and claims
- documented He testified that confirmation that UAP are real came to him in January 2015, as Commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, during a pre-deployment exercise of the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group overseen by U.S. Fleet Forces Command. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Hearing transcript: “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth”
- claimed He testified that the operations officer of Fleet Forces Command emailed all subordinate commanders under the subject “URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE”, with words to the effect: “If any of you know what these are, tell me ASAP. We are having multiple near midair collisions, and if we do not resolve this soon, we are going to have to shut down the exercise.” The GoFast video was attached. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth at 44:03
- claimed Under oath: “The very next day, that email disappeared from my account and those of the other recipients without explanation”, and the subject was never raised again. He concluded the information sat within a special access program run by an intelligence agency. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth at 45:10
- claimed He believes an intelligence agency treated the email as “spillage” into a lower classification level, which requires removing the communications. He says Jay Stratton later confirmed to him that it was deleted because officials did not yet know whether the object was adversary technology. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth at 1:51:43
- claimed On AARO's analysis that GoFast was not moving fast, he concedes the point (“I don't dispute that”), but says it was a spherical object without control surfaces, flying in formation with others, while pilots saw dozens. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Top Navy Admiral: “The Ocean is FULL OF UFOs!” at 10:14
- claimed He testified that analysts called an object in satellite imagery not yet shared with Congress “the button”, a disc-shaped object, and that bridge watchstanders on USS Omaha saw an object with no exhaust or control surfaces go from the air into the sea. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth at 1:06:38
- documented Asked whether UAP are of non-human origin, he answered under oath: “Strong evidence that they are nonhuman higher intelligence.” — Tim Gallaudet Source: Hearing transcript: “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth”
- claimed He testified that a meeting with AARO leadership became “an hours-long influence operation” to convince him of its historical record report and to suggest the Tic Tac was possibly American technology. In 2026 he said Sean Kirkpatrick had recently told an audience in Arlington that the Tic Tac was a DARPA experiment, which Gallaudet rejects. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth at 1:18:39
- claimed At the May 2025 congressional briefing he said: “today I call on the American scientific enterprise to mainstream UAP research and development”, crediting Avi Loeb's Galileo Project, Diana Pasulka and the Sol Foundation. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation (House Oversight and Government Reform) at 44:10
- claimed He relays accounts from three submarine officers of underwater objects closing faster than any adversary submarine, then slowing to trail them, and says that as Oceanographer of the Navy he was never read into a “National Underwater Reconnaissance Office”. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Top Navy Admiral: “The Ocean is FULL OF UFOs!” at 26:47
- claimed He sits on the UAP Science Advisory Council, which he says reports to the ODNI and has requested videos and data, including the 2013 Aguadilla case. — Tim Gallaudet Source: Top Navy Admiral: “The Ocean is FULL OF UFOs!” at 30:49
Connected files
Books
- Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: Future Visions (statement about)
- Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights (statement about)
Claims
- The objects Navy F/A-18 crews tracked off the U.S. East Coast in 2014–15 were not conventional aircraft, drones or balloons (comments on claim)
- Programs dealing with UAP have been hidden from congressional oversight (asserts)
Documentaries
- The Age of Disclosure (appears in)
Incidents
- USS Theodore Roosevelt encounters (Gimbal / GoFast) (received reports of) — As Oceanographer of the Navy he received the “urgent safety of flight” email with the GoFast video
Organizations
- UAP Science Advisory Council (members)
People
- Alex Dietrich (statement about)
- Alexandro Wiggins (encouraged) — Gallaudet says he encouraged Wiggins to come forward
- David Fravor (statement about)
- Michael Shellenberger (testified with) — They testified together on 13 November 2024
- Ryan Graves (advised) — Gallaudet became an adviser to Graves's Americans for Safe Aerospace
- Tim Burchett (statement about)
- Jay Stratton (informed by) — Stratton told him the deleted GoFast email had been treated as spillage
- Chris Mellon (related to)
- Sean Kirkpatrick (disputes) — He rejects Kirkpatrick's DARPA explanation for the Tic Tac and called a meeting with AARO's leadership an “influence operation”
Hearings & briefings
- Congressional briefing: Understanding UAP — Science, National Security & Innovation (testified at)
- Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth (testified at)
Programs
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (accused) — He accused AARO of an influence operation
Documents
- AARO case resolution: "Go Fast" (2025) (partly accepts) — He concedes AARO's point that GoFast was not fast (“I don't dispute that”) but disputes its wider conclusions
Videos
- Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth (discussed in)
- Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation (House Oversight and Government Reform) (speaks in)
- UAP & National Security: Mellon, Gallaudet, von Rennenkampff & McConnell at Disclosure Forum 2026 (appears in)
- Top Navy Admiral: “The Ocean is FULL OF UFOs!” (appears in)
Mentioned in videos
Mentioned in documents and records
- Ryan Graves — written testimony, House Oversight hearing (July 26, 2023)
- Hearing transcript: “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth”
- USS Jackson “tic-tac” formation
- National Reconnaissance Office